MIC TORINO: Project ATLAS

MIC TORINO: Project ATLAS

ATLAS (Automatic Translation into Sign Language) (2009- on-going). The project is supported by the Piemonte Region and financed by the program of development of innovative services. The project creates the technological bridge between the cognitive sciences and the most advanced information technologies. It gives the possibility to deaf people to look and understand programs of mass media through automatic translation from the Italian written language into the sign language (LIS) which is visualized a virtual actor created by computer animation drawing means. Microsoft Innovation Center is supporting this project using the Microsoft technologies on mobile devices: Windows Phone 7.